German beer has traditionally been made from just four ingredients – hops, malt, yeast, and water.

德国啤酒传统上一直是只由4种原料酿造而成的–啤酒花、麦芽、酵母和水。

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Water, malt, hop and yeast are the main components of the beer production process.

水、麦芽、啤酒花和酵母是啤酒酿制过程中的主要成分。

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You should drink water or juice instead of beer.

你应该喝些水或果汁，而不喝啤酒。

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"It's so simple. With a two-liter bottle you add sugar, you add extract, you add a small amount of yeast and water, cap it up and in two days they've got root beer.

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If we think about the drinks industry more generally here, rather than just beer, this would be Guinness, this would be Poland Spring, This is water and everything else would be in between here.

如果我们把啤酒业想得更普遍点,不仅仅只有啤酒,这可能是吉尼斯,这可能是波兰泉水,这是水而其他的产品分布在中间

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They spend hot afternoons drinking beer on the water, Mr. Rivers dragging Cpl.

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The design proved to be "terribly complicated" and had to be adapted many times, including the use of two beer cans as water-filled counter weights.

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So too are 45, 000 jobs a cost: these are 45, 000 people who cannot be drinking or making beer, purifying water or caring for old folks.

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